Rufino Tamayo

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November 17, 10:26 PM GMT

Estimate

350,000 - 450,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Legendary Masters: The Brillembourg Capriles Collection

Rufino Tamayo

1899 - 1991

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signed Tamayo and dated O-56 (lower right)

oil and sand on canvas

31 3/4 by 39 5/8 in.

80.6 by 100.6 cm.

Executed in 1956.

We wish to thank Juan Carlos Pereda for his kind assistance in the cataloguing of this work.

M. Knoedler & Co, New York
Marcel Roche, Caracas (acquired from the above in 1960)
M. Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired from the above in 1965)
Private Collection, United States (acquired from the above)
Sotheby's, New York, 7 May 1981, lot 51 (consigned by the above)
CDS Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1982

Miguel Salas Anzures & Vicente Rojo, eds., Artes de Mexico, El Arte de Tamayo, no. 12, Mexico City, 1956, n.p., illustrated
Paul Westheim, Tamayo, Mexico City, 1956, n.p., illustrated
Octavio Paz, Tamayo, Mexico City, 1959, no. 103, n.p., illustrated

New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Recent Works by Rufino Tamayo, 1956, no. 8

Fredericksburg, Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, 9th Exhibition of Modern Art, 1964, no. 43, n.p., illustrated

Houston, Hooks Epstein Galleries, Inc., Mexican Masters, 1980

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Intersecting Modernities: Latin American Art from the Brillembourg Capriles Collection, 2013, no. 51, pp. 138 and 246, illustrated in color